26/08/2015 - Jacques Audiard’s film, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, hits the box office, whilst Shellac releases the final film in the Arabian Nights trilogy

Dheepan by Jacques Audiard

The somewhat paradoxical winner of the Palme d’Or of Cannes 2015, as it almost seemed to be the career of the director that was being awarded as opposed to the film, which is undeniably very strong but not necessarily the best of its creator (his profuse talent always gives rise to discussion, which is always better than the alternative), Dheepan [+see also:
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Q&A: Jacques Audiard
film profile] by Jacques Audiard (read the review and the interview with the director) was released in 305 theatres today by UGC Distribution. A strategy involving a summer release modelled on Audiard’s previous film A Prophet [+see also:
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interview: Jacques Audiard
interview: Jacques Audiard and Tahar R…
film profile], which was also awarded at Cannes and released at the end of August 2009, reaching a total of 1.3 million admissions. The film was released today in Belgium and Switzerland, but will not be released until 18 September in Sweden (distribution: TriArt Film AB), 29 October in Italy (via Cinema, Valerio de Paolis’ new company), 10 December in Germany (Weltkino) and 24 March 2016 in Denmark (Camera Film).

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Also hitting the box office today is Arabian Nights: The Enchanted One [+see also:
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interview: Miguel Gomes
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interview: Miguel Gomes
film profile] and 74 copies of The Desolate One [+see also:
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interview: Miguel Gomes
film profile].

Also worth pointing out is that French animation The Little Prince [+see also:
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interview: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
film profile] by Turkish filmmaker Deniz Gamze Ergüven has seen over 400,000 admissions in nine weeks (and is still in theatres with over 100 copies in circulation courtesy of Ad Vitam Distribution), and Marshland [+see also:
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interview: Alberto Rodríguez
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(Translated from French)